Title :
MIMO effect evaluation for aeronautical WiMAX in airport at 5.1GHZ
Author :
Kanada, Naoki ; Sumiya, Yasuto ; Yonemoto, Naruto ; Futatsumori, Shunichi ; Isozaki, E.
Author_Institution :
Electron. Navig. Res. Inst., Chofu, Japan
Abstract :
A new high-speed aeronautical digital communication system called Aeronautical Mobile Airport Communication System (AeroMACS) is currently being considered. This paper describes a study to evaluate the MIMO effect of different antenna configurations for this system in an airport environment. We first proposed an index to evaluate MIMO antenna systems. We then measured transmission coefficients between antennas mounted on an aircraft representing a mobile station and a road vehicle representing a base station at Sendai Airport, and then based on these measurements we compared the channel capacities between SISO, 2×2 MIMO, and 2×6 MIMO antenna systems. We also evaluated channel capacity under multipath rich and poor environments. We conclude that 2×6 MIMO antenna systems are the most effective under any conditions.
Keywords :
MIMO communication; WiMax; aircraft antennas; aircraft communication; airports; channel capacity; digital communication; microwave antenna arrays; multipath channels; AeroMACS; MIMO antenna systems; MIMO effect evaluation; SISO; Sendai airport; aeronautical WiMAX; aeronautical mobile airport communication system; aircraft antennas; antenna configurations; base station; channel capacity; frequency 5.1 GHz; high-speed aeronautical digital communication system; mobile station; multipath channel; road vehicle; transmission coefficients; Aircraft; Airports; Antenna measurements; Frequency measurement; MIMO; Transmitting antennas;
Conference_Titel :
Integrated Communications, Navigation and Surveillance Conference (ICNS), 2012
Conference_Location :
Herndon, VA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1901-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICNSurv.2012.6218400
